Motorcycle parts availability and delivery time are two separate measurements, and nearly every supplier quotes only their total. Pulled apart, they show which half of the wait anyone can date.
Motorcycle parts availability is the first number, carriage is the second
It fits in one line. How long an order takes to reach your door is the time the goods need to become available to us, plus the time a carrier needs to move them.
The first belongs to whoever makes or holds the component, and changes with where that is. The second belongs to a postal administration or a courier, and depends mostly on your address. A blended estimate hides which of the two produced the delay, which is what you need to know before stripping an engine at the weekend.
Our order policy sets out the sequence from enquiry to despatch. This page deals only with the arithmetic of the wait.
Four situations, four completely different waits
Most of the confusion comes from four states being reported in the same flat words, only one of which is genuinely closed. Find your situation on the left, then read across.
| The situation | What it means for the wait | What we need from you |
|---|---|---|
| Back-ordered at a supplier | Still made; one shelf is empty, and it may be a shelf near you rather than the factory’s. | The number it was quoted against, and the country you were told it in |
| Discontinued | Production has stopped, so there is no wait to measure until a replacement route is found | The number or part name, and whether an equivalent would be acceptable |
| Not listed in your region’s catalogue | Nothing is wrong with the component; your machine was never in the catalogue being searched. The ordinary case. | Frame number, or the part name with a photograph of where it fits |
| A Thai-market or Thai-made component | The sourcing leg is short, since goods and packing bench are in one city. Carriage is the only figure left. | Destination country and the quantity you want |
The second row has a page of its own, because a dead component needs a plan rather than more patience: discontinued motorcycle parts covers those endings. Every other row starts from an identifier, so searching by part number and working from the frame number are the ways in.
Genuine parts from Japan, counted in working days
One availability figure is documented and we publish no other. Genuine components ordered from Japan are normally available from the factory in about four working days, provided the item is not on back order there.
Both halves matter. Working days are not calendar days, so weekends and Japanese public holidays sit outside the count, and the back-order caveat is what separates a datable wait from an open one.
Routes into that supply chain sit on our parts from Japan hub, and the four ways to order motorcycle parts from Japan compares them. The marque catalogues begin at genuine Honda, Yamaha and Kawasaki parts.
The half of the answer already sitting in Thailand
A great deal of what we send never involves a Japanese factory, and that changes the arithmetic rather than merely speeding it up. Where a component is sourced in Bangkok, the first number stops being a lead time from abroad and becomes an errand.
Thai genuine parts
Several of the machines we work on were built and sold in this country, so Thailand is their origin rather than a cheaper alternative to it. The Wave 125, the Sonic 125, the Zoomer and the KSR110 are catalogued by the Thai distributor, in Thai, in a system built for dealers here.
That is why an owner abroad meets a blank screen and concludes the component has died. It has not; the search was run in the wrong catalogue. Our notes on Thai market parts and their naming and on ordering parts from Thailand explain how the listings are indexed.
Thai accessories and locally made goods
Thailand also builds, rather than imports, much of what gets bolted on afterwards. Those ranges answer to a maker’s product code instead of a marque part number, so one catalogue settles it instead of two.
What is made here rather than merely sold here is set out under motorcycle accessories from Thailand, with the makers in the brand directory.
The parts we make ourselves
We manufacture components under our own name for the Honda Monkey and the Honda Dax. For those the availability question never leaves the building, being answered against our own production rather than somebody else’s catalogue, and some exist precisely because the genuine equivalent stopped being made.
That matters most in the 4Mini class, where a machine may be four decades old and factory support long finished. Shops abroad carrying these ranges are on the dealers page, and everything leaves the Ladprao shop that has packed it since 2002.
One enquiry can hold both kinds. A mixed list may pair something drawn from Japan with something bought a few streets away, which is two availabilities in one quotation, and we say which line is which.
The second number, and who actually carries it
Once the goods are gathered, the rest of the wait belongs to a carrier, and one figure is documented: postal EMS runs four to seven days. Anything else is timed and priced with the parcel in front of us.
Whether that service reaches you at all is worth asking first. Japan Post describes EMS as its fastest international service for items up to thirty kilogrammes, covering over a hundred and twenty countries and territories, which leaves some addresses served another way.
How each service prices a box belongs to the pages written for it: shipping motorcycle parts worldwide, EMS shipping and DHL shipping. Complete machines are a different trade, on our motorcycle export page.
Questions owners ask before ordering
Can you tell me the total wait before I commit?
We can tell you what each half is made of, which is the useful version of that answer. The carriage figure we publish is EMS at four to seven days, and availability is checked against the source when we quote. Customs at your end sits outside both.
Should I give up on something described as back-ordered?
Not on that word alone. It usually reports one supplier’s empty shelf, and shelves in different countries are stocked from different places, so the same component may be ordinary at the source we buy from.
Is something sourced in Thailand quicker than something from Japan?
It removes a leg rather than making the post faster. The goods reach the packing bench without an international movement first, so the first number shrinks while the second stays whatever runs to your country.
What to send so we can check yours
Send the part number if you hold one. If not, send the part name with your frame number, which lets us open the catalogue for the market your machine was built for. Add the destination country and the quantity of each item.
A photograph helps more than a description, particularly of where the component sits. We check the supply source in Thailand or Japan and reply by email with a price in Thai Baht, quoted CIF, and say which of the two waits applies.
Open a quote request, or the genuine parts enquiry if a marque component has run out. Read the returns position first: after shipment we cannot take goods back except for a manufacturer’s fault, and nothing returns to Thailand.